--- title: "Don't Give Up" date: 2008-09-18T06:01:23Z modified: 2008-09-18T06:01:23Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/dont-give-up/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 453 categories: - Life Poems author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2008-09-18T06:01:23Z tags: - Life Poems --- It’s half past midnight tossing and turning unable to sleep, I don’t know [what to](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/what-to-do-with-this.md) do; My mind is far away in search of something that I once had and somehow slipped out my hand; Struggling to understand this tug of [war](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/war-within.md) between the mind and heart I try to search for a solution so as to agree on a compromise; Trying to pay attention to what’s happening around me, I try to decipher the clues and hints that I believe are there for my picking; Like a fish out of water, Out of innocence into adulthood Too soon into this fast paced game where I am just a spectator, lost and bewildered; So, what happened? Where did I all go wrong? What am I supposed to do? What is it that I have to do? Plenty of [questions](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/questions-of-life.md) and answers all out there, is what I am told, yet I am totally lost; Going round and round in a place where the streets have no name, I bobble in and out of life; As the [storm](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/storm-passion.md) rages on unabated, the leaves blow and the [trees](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/the-sound-of-the-trees.md) sway, all I know is that I am here to stay, till the day my heart gives up on me; – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow, it empties today of strength – Carrie Ten Bloom Trust in [Dreams](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/its-just-like-a-dream.md), For In Them is The Hidden Gate to Eternity. – Kahlil Gibran Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. – Rabindranath Tagore What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of [life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/taxonomy/category/life.md) – Emil Brunner – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –